and how invalidating 2020 became a rhino litmus test in wisconsin. all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i am chris hayes. it has been about 32 hours since a trump appointed federal district judge issued this astonishing ruling, essentially siding with donald trump s lawyers, giving the ex president nearly everything he wanted and more in the case of his clearly on lawful and possibly criminal retention of classified documents that are not his. now, we will get to the details of the ruling itself, but first, it is notable that this decision has come under unbelievable, overwhelming and near universal criticism. law professor of duke university telling new york times, quote, this ruling is laughably bat and the justification is even flimsier. paul rosen by a former george w. bush official cause the ruling, quote, a generally unprecedented decision by a judge. andrew weissmann, formerly prosecutor and law investigation, who i speak to at this table in a moment, w
eye off the ball. and tonight, the concern overseas about a key global vaccine, the astrazeneca vaccine. germany, france and others halting itses use and we ll tell you why. and back here at home tonight, dr. deborah birx making new hadlines. she was on president trump s covid task force. what she told our terry moran today about the moment the former president mentioned injecting disinfectant. the president out selling the new covid relief bill. the first checks hitting accounts and mary bruce standing by. and the alarming scene at the southern border. more than 4,200 unaccompanied migrant children in u.s. custody, reportedly being kept in overcrowded tents. republican leaders on the border at the white house is pressed tonight. cecilia vega reporting from the border. the deadly crash, a car plowing into people in california. at least three dead. the driver in custody tonight. the horrific images coming in. the plane crashing into a neighborhood, slamming into a car.
the cdc now reporting more than 107 million people in this country have received at least one dose. and the average over the past week is about 2.3 million people getting vaccinated every day. let s begin with cnn national correspondent natasha chen for us in florida. visitors are there in huge numbers for spring break despite the pandemic. are people taking precautions? reporter: anna, most of the people we are seeing walking along ocean drive here are not wearing a mask. and you have mentioned there is not a lot of social distancing going on, especially with the evening crowds. here s video that someone took from friday night. this is an incident that happened a few blocks from where i am standing where there was a very large crowd. miami beach police tweeted about this saying two of their officers got injured in the situation as they tried to disperse the crowd with pepper balls. a couple of officers had to be sent to the hospital. that s just one example of the rowdines
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reilly has been fallowing all the january six cases. ryan, you are the first one, who recovered the cases of closely, who learned that this was the individual. i ve seen the picture, but tell me more about this individual s case. hale-cusanelli was convicted by a jury, and what is remarkable about this case is that it was overseen by judge mcfadden who decided that after he was convicted that he would be willing to give an extended sentence or a longer sentence to hale-cusanelli because he found his testimony, quote, highly dubious. this is an individual with a long record of essentially fascist-like views here. he was actually arrested back in 2010, believe it or not, for having a potato gun with a bunch of his friends that had the phrase, white is right, on it. he had this right-wing podcasts. he had exchanges with that and, the woman he refers to as his